Paul

Me hacking away at things.

less than 1 minute read

to enable the automatic checking for fastest mirrors within yum install the following plugin: $ sudo yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror

check that plugins are enabled:

[code languag="bash"]
$ cat /etc/yum.conf
<truncated>
plugins=1
[/code]

check that the config file contains the following:

[code languag="bash"]
$ cat /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf
[main]
verbose = 0
socket_timeout = 3
enabled = 1
hostfilepath = /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt
maxhostfileage = 1
[/code]

src: wiki.centos.org, techiecorner.com/

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